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A pretty picture
The National Portrait Gallery reopened a month ago today. Reoriented and refreshed physically, by Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell,...

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Jul 22, 20235 min read
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Everything old is new again
A generation ago the Financial Times left its purpose-built home in the shadow of St Paul’s for a generic glass box in Southwark. A dozen...

Chris Rogers
Jul 18, 20235 min read
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London’s look out
With new development continuing across London, including in areas like Stratford and Vauxhall that were ignored in previous decades, it...

Chris Rogers
Jun 10, 20234 min read
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Hotel on a high
There are a dozen Hiltons in London, from Paddington to Canary Wharf and from Southwark to Islington. But ask a taxi to take you to ‘the...

Chris Rogers
Apr 17, 20234 min read
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Donatello: Add, subtract, multiply
Ours is a fragmentary world, but also a connected one. Heads bow in contemplation of personal devotions, but we are joined by concepts...

Chris Rogers
Mar 28, 20235 min read
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One photograph: A broadening
A young woman stands on the steps of a building; another, taller woman stands next to her. The clothes could be from any of the last few...

Chris Rogers
Feb 5, 20233 min read
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To infinity and beyond
This week’s British mission to orbit domestically-built satellites from home soil, using a modified Boeing 747 to carry aloft a rocket...

Chris Rogers
Jan 15, 20233 min read
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